Originally Posted by
pjs37 Both the Vive and the Rift share the same horizontal FOV but the Vive is taller than the Rift at least as I understand it.
As for how does it affect my gaming experience? It is hard to say. You need to imagine it like a computer monitor in that you have a noticeable limit to your natural view which is quite wide and tall. As to effects on immersion I don't notice it really because like when I play a PC game or watch a movie I get lost in what I am looking at what is happening on the display. Would a wider FOV be more immersive? I am sure it would but it hasn't dropped me out of the experience yet. The biggest thing that has helped me with that I think is the fact that as you move your head you move your head in the virtual enviroment. Now I much like my cockpit sims so this was always a problem before because if I was in a cockpit and I moved my head I had to use a hatstick which either slowly moved my view around or would jump to pre-defined view points in the game. There is a popular add-on called TrackIR which made it so when you moved your head your view changed too. This helped but VR immerses you more than that because it makes you feel like you are really in a cockpit.
The most I can tell you is to try and find somewhere to try a Rift or a Vive (Microsoft Stores, Best Buy, Microcenter) and see if it really bothers you. I didn't watch the whole video but I wouldn't get too caught up on what a person tells you affects them but as he said you need to try it yourself.
Believe me, I know exactly what you are talking about with the head movement-I have been an FSX user for years too

That is indeed an amazing feature, and from what I understand head movements are tracked flawlessly on both the Vive and the Rift.
Which headset do you own? Have you ever tried both?
Do you use FlyInside?
The rift seems to be like the better choice for the simulators, and it also has much better controllers that can be well integrated for interacting with the cockpit (Wow, I just try to imagine flying the PMDG 737-800, and turning on the plane cold and dark utilizing the controllers and moving my head!
How is the sim experience so far? I am really afraid from the low resolution.
Will a IFR flight in Vatsim be possible at all with all the radio communications, digits and texts?
Thanks!